His Royal Highness the prince is cute

Chapter 169 Follow my brother to investigate the case (2)

As soon as the prefect Chen Sheng received the report, he rushed here with his officers and soldiers in a hurry. The whole process took less than half a stick of incense, and the efficiency was amazing.

As soon as he entered the door, he met Liu De, the housekeeper who had been waiting for him for a long time. He had a bruised nose and a swollen face. As soon as he met him, he knelt down and cried to Chen Sheng:

"Master Qingtian, you have come, you must be the master for us."

When the steward cried, the servants kneeling next to him also cried one by one. For a while, the whole courtyard was surrounded by crying and howling, making Chen Sheng's head dizzy.

"Enough is enough, don't cry, hurry up and take me to see, and you, explain what's going on while walking, why did the good Shangguan die suddenly?"

Under the scolding of the official, the crying became much quieter, but everyone continued to wipe their tears, which looked very pitiful.

Speaking of being pitiful, the magistrate Chen Sheng also felt that he was very pitiful. The dead Shangguan Chen was the servant of the Ministry of Punishment. From the third rank, he was several ranks older than him, okay?
If the case is not handled well, he might not be able to keep his own black hat, how could he not be in a hurry!

The housekeeper walked in front of the official and led the way, and explained to him what happened while wiping away tears:

"A distinguished guest came to the mansion today, the master does not allow anyone to disturb him, and only entertains him in Ya Ning Zhai by himself..."

"Guest? What kind of guest?"

Chen Sheng interrupted the butler. For some reason, when he heard these two words, his head twitched, always feeling ominous.

"It's a young man with excellent looks, a lady wearing a veil, and a bodyguard..."

"Okay, that's fine, let's continue talking about the story."

Chen Sheng turned around in his mind, there should be no young princes in the hall who are older than him, so he didn't worry anymore, so he urged the housekeeper to continue talking about the case.

"Yes," the housekeeper looked at the official with some grievances, obviously you asked me to say it.

"Because there was a small matter in the mansion on the way, the old slave didn't stay there to deal with it. But according to the servant's account, the master and the nobleman have been staying in Yaningzhai. Not long after, the master returned to the room, and the nobleman was alone. Ya Ning Zhai stayed for a long time before coming out."

The butler said, stopped and wiped away his tears, and continued:

"The master has specially ordered before that if the nobleman wants to leave, he must be notified, so when they left later, the old slave should have called the master, but he was afraid that they would leave too fast, so the old slave went to persuade him to stay. , let a little servant in the mansion call the master, who knows, who knows..."

The housekeeper said this, and cried again, his appearance was extremely sad,
"The little servant went to knock on the door, but found that the door was unlocked. When he went in, he found that the master was lying motionless on the bed, and he had already passed away."

Chen Sheng frowned while listening: "Lying on the bed and dying? How could this happen?"

"This old slave doesn't know, but it must be related to those three people. The master only met them before his death. This old slave has every reason to suspect that they did it! Otherwise, my master has always been in good health, why would he suddenly die?" dead?"

The housekeeper wiped his tears again while Chen Sheng nodded beside him,
"According to what you said, Lord Shangguan only saw the three of them before he died, so they are indeed the biggest suspects."

(End of this chapter)